Pictured at 3 years of age. A beautiful elegant
girl, took two group firsts!!!

National & International Champion Friendships Irish Velvet
is one elegant lady. Showing her at the International Shows was a delight
as she had such a commanding performance, winning several Best of Breeds, and
Groups.

Velvet took her Junior Champion Title at 5 months of age at
the International Show in Ridgefield, WA in December 2000. The following
is a summary of her critiques as a puppy:

Judgement:
Pleasing, well presented, well balanced, well prepped bitch, good substance,
very alert, studious youngster.

Velvet
earned her Junior International Champion title, and also was part of the Family
Group with Cary, and sister Friendships Gypsy Delight, who was not shown in
the individual class, just in the group.

Friendships
Gypsy Delight "Cary"
Friendships
Irish Velvet

Velvet's
second International Show was at just over 18 months of age at Longview, WA
in February 2002. A summary of her critiques is as follows:

Judgement:
Nice color, good breed representative, temperament is very characteristic
of the breed.

1.)
Overall Impression: Nice condition.

2.)
Coat: Excellent, good color, proper in texture.

3.)
Head: Decent head, very good, skull slightly rounded.

4.)
Bite, mouth: Good bite, excellent.

5.)
Eyes: Could be darker.

6.)
Ears: Good ears, well placed, correct, close to head.

7.)
Chest: Nice depth, well let down.

8.)
Front Angulation: Decent, balanced front, good.

9.)
Back Angulation: Decent, good rear assembly.

10.)
Top line: Good.

11.)
Tail: Good, good set, carried well.

12.)
Movement: Good, acceptable.

Velvet
earned two legs of her International Title, and one leg of her National Title.

When
shown at almost 2 1/2 years of age at the International Show in Hillsboro, OR
May 2002 a summary of Velvet's critiques is as follows:

Judgement:
Nice outline, very alert, good temperament, very sound female, very nice
well balanced female.

1.)
Overall Impression: Square young female, well built with lots of
elegance, very showy, square.

Velvet
completed both her International and National Champion titles at her second
show as an adult, as well as taking Best of Breed and Group twice, and competing
for Best in Show. When this show was over we took Velvet out of show coat
and discovered that underneath she was going totally silver beige. She
is now at 4 years of age almost totally silver - with clearer coloring than
many silvers that start out black. This is our first silver beige and
it has been interesting watching the coat change, and how fast it is compared
with the silver underlying the black. Velvet was as dark a brown as the
Hershey bar wrapper as a pup, and was still a very dark brown as shown in her
picture taken at the last show, however you could tell at her waist that a change
was taking place, we just didn't expect it to be so drastic. The silver
lines behind her dam are six generations back, and are very dilute lines.

Velvet
has whelped two beautiful black and brown litters (11 pups V1, 10 pups V2) sired by "Raven",
with outstanding results. The pups when temperament tested at 7 1/2-8
weeks of age tested very highly for social skills, people orientation, retrieving,
search & rescue & tracking instincts, as well as a high level of intelligence
for agility and obedience work. These are very exciting litters to work
with, being exceptional when given the "opportunity to learn",
house breaking at a very early age. Several are training as service dogs, several
in agility, and two in search and rescue - including one exported to Germany.
It will be interesting to watch her puppies progress, and to see how many
change to the silver beige as they age.

PICTURES
OF V1 - VELVET X RAVEN LITTER

Karin's
daughter Beatrice Elizabeth (known as Bitsy) at 1 1/2 years playing with the
V1 puppies. They are as charmed by her as she is by them.

The
V1 - Velvet x Raven litter on their first walk outside at 4 weeks of age!!!

With
the discontinuation of our partnership Velvet went to Anna Eberhardt. Note:
Anna retired Velvet and placed her in a pet home.

FRIENDSHIPS VR IRISH
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Pictured at 8 months of age 6/04 in Oklahoma

Friendships VR Irish Moka was sold at 8 weeks of age and
travelled to her new owner in Oklahoma at 10 weeks of age. Unfortunately
her new owner became ill, and it was decided to have "Moka" shipped
back to Friendships. She is a delightful, exhuberant yearling. Because
of health reasons it is necessary for me to reduce the size of our kennel temporarily
so we are trying to decide at this time whether to add "Moka" to our
breeding program - if so she will complete her testing and be bred Spring 2006
to "Sterling", or to place her in a new home. Due to this we will
consider anyone who feels that "Moka" would make a good addition to
their family and/or their breeding program. She now resides
with her new owner in New York and is competing in Obedience trials and
may continue on with agility events as well.